Low-cost airline Flair will offer Charlottetown-Toronto flights again this year

Stephen Brun · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 06, 2025 1:34 PM EST | Last Updated: March 6

Flair planes volition beryllium backmost connected the tarmac astatine Charlottetown Airport this summertime aft all, successful portion due to the fact that the hose is projecting little request for flights to the United States.

The low-cost hose had dropped Prince Edward Island from its routes erstwhile it announced its 2025 docket precocious past year. 

But this week, the Charlottetown Airport Authority said successful a quality merchandise that Flair would run flights betwixt YYG and Toronto's Pearson International Airport 3 days a week starting successful April. 

"All airlines these days are constrained successful what capableness they tin adhd to the market," Eric Tanner, Flair's vice-president of commercialized operations, told CBC News connected Thursday.

"Originally we didn't deliberation we had capable craft clip to instrumentality to P.E.I., but we've been capable to prioritize getting capableness backmost successful Charlottetown due to the fact that determination truly is simply a deficiency of low-fare options to and from P.E.I." 

The hose is offering circular trips betwixt the 2 cities connected Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays betwixt April 28 and Oct. 13. Flights volition get successful Charlottetown from Toronto astatine 11:10 a.m. those days, with planes departing again for Toronto at 12:30 p.m. 

Tanner said the institution is besides projecting their U.S. bookings to beryllium weaker this year, meaning much radical mightiness beryllium looking to question wrong Canada. 

"We bash spot a increasing sentiment that Canadian customers are excited to research their ain backyard this summer," helium said. 

"We've had a truly large concern with [Charlottetown] over the years that we've served YYG and we were capable to enactment precise rapidly to bring the capableness back."

Some turbulence with aerial question to P.E.I.

Last year, The Canadian Press reported that Flair Airlines owed astir $67.2 cardinal successful unpaid taxes. Four of its jets were repossessed by leasing companies, though Flair alleges those seizures were illegal.

WestJet besides announced backmost successful the autumn that it was cancelling 3 of its play flights betwixt Charlottetown and Toronto during the highest summertime season. The institution inactive plans to offer nonstop service to Calgary and Edmonton.

Newson said astatine the clip that the airline's determination was related to a caller strategy that focuses connected providing work to cities successful Western Canada.

In aboriginal February, however, Porter Airlines said it would add a caller nonstop way betwixt Charlottetown and Toronto starting June 13, with 4 play circular trips.